Monday, April 15, 2013

I am happy that I can continue the interviews on Two Way Lens with another exceptional photographer and artist.

Julie Blackmon was born in Springfield, Missouri where she still lives with her husband and three children. Her work is inspired by her experience of growing up in a large family, her role as a mother and the timelessness of family dynamics. A big source of inspiration is her love for dutch and flemish genre paintings by artists like jan Steen and others.

Julie Blackmon's photographs are wonderful staged fantasies, perfectly composed with a painterly eye for color and tableau like arrangements.

Her work is represented by major galleries in America and Europe and included in many public and private collections worldwide.

Friday, April 12, 2013

THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT HOW IT FLOWS is an event by Capricious Magazine dedicated to their WATER issue.

The event will take place on April 20 at the Platform, Färgkontoret, Lövholmsgränd 12, Stockholm, Sweden with readings, performance and the photographs of the artists who are included in the WATER Issue are getting projected in the gallery. I am very excited being a part of it.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

When I was a child, my parents and I drove every summer to Austria for our two weeks of holidays. For me it was the happiest time of my life. I felt so great and full of life and joy in this landscape.

The mountains were the most amazing thing I have ever seen and climbing up a mountain was just like being in heaven for me. When the end of our two weeks came and we had to go back, I sat in the car and the only thing I wanted, was staying near my beloved mountains. The closer we came to Munich and the landscape got flatter I had to cry because I couldn't see any mountains anymore.

A couple of years ago, I went back to Austria and the feelings were still as strong and intense as in my childhood. With this series I want to keep my memories forever, my feelings of being "Close to Heaven"

Thursday, April 04, 2013

The campaign will be kicking off a 10,000 mile road trip around America this month, stopping in major cities to set up curbside pop-up galleries featuring national and local photography.

These events are meant as a grassroots campaign to engage communities, introducing people to the artists working in their hometowns, and drawing attention to the need to support emerging artists.

The photographs on display will not be sold, but instead given away to those who connect with them, for many their first opportunity at owning original art.

Lady Blue, The Tour Bus

About the Tour
The campaign will be undertaken in “Lady Blue,” a 1977 VW bus funded through Kickstarter, who
will serve as mascot, transportation and exhibition space.
At each destination city, the bus will park in a busy public space and open for “business.” Meant to attract not only fans of the project, who can follow the tour and find locations through a variety of social media outlets, but also unknowing passers by.

This guerrilla style exhibition is meant to reach the core of the nation’s public, allowing for spontaneous and genuine reactions to the available work and engaging people outside the normal art world audience.

Crusade For Collecting recognizes the skilled work of artists. The gesture of giving away art for
free is meant to incite a payitforward response and encourage future collecting by recipients.

It is not a statement on the value of the available work, but rather an act of art awareness and empowerment.

About the Participating Artists
Art available will include work from The Ten, an earlier project developed by Schwartz as a
monthly curated online exhibit of limited release, fine art photography.

This group of internationally collected and widely exhibited photographers represent a
range of work meant to capture attention and inspire artistic connection amongst the diversity of
the American public.

Additionally, To Be Announced local emerging artists of each participating city will be included in
the pop up gallery space, and often be onsite themselves, allowing The Crusade to introduce
locals to the art and artists homegrown in their own communities.

More Information, a list of the cities and even more can be found here:

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

He invited some of the best known emerged and emerging photographers from across the globe.

The brief for the photographers was to take a portrait of someone they know, no matter how loosely.

The project is conscious of the fact that just like plumbers not having finished bathrooms and dentists having bad teeth, photographers don't often apply their trade to people closer to home. It's a chance for the people taking part to see if they can express their relationship with someone through means of a photograph.

The result is an incredible collection of outstanding portraits and a resource for everyone interested in contemporary photography.

Please take your time to look through the site and enjoy the photographs.